The Keogh Mortality Review

On February 6 2013, the Prime Minister announced that he had asked Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS Medical Director for England, to review the quality of care and treatment provided by those NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts that are persistent outliers on mortality indicators. A total of 14 hospital trusts were investigated as part of this review. After the reviews, 11 of the 14 trusts were placed into special measures by NHS Improvement

The review was guided by the NHS values set out in the NHS Constitution and underpinned by the following key principles:

When there are concerns about the quality of care that hospitals are delivering, they can be put into special measures. Find out what action is taken by trusts that need to improve the quality of their services.

Find the Keogh Review final outcomes report, along with several reports that were published as part of the review, such as the Information and Intelligence Packs and the reports from the Risk Summit meetings.